Lean Manufacturing is a performance improvement strategy which focuses on meeting exact customer requirements in the shortest timeframe and at the lowest possible cost. Lean accomplishes this objective by removing all waste and non-value adding activities from the manufacturing process.

Gain Sharing is a performance based compensation plan which provides incentive pay to employees for improvements made above current performance levels. Gain Sharing is a very powerful motivator in that the savings achieved by these improvements are often shared equally with employees.